Todd Snider – Happy New Year (Ukulele)

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happy new year everybody there's an overweight man with an overweight woman

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on a sofa just watching TV hes yelling his opinion at the television she

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looks up from her food and agrees they got two bumper stickers on there pick

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up truck they keep the pick up parked outside one sticker says "what would

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jesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "power of pride"  I was thumbing

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through the stations on my own television when i come across a guy on the

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religious station singing "somebody's coming" sounding whiter than me

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somehow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when I was

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such a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm evangelical agnostic now   I don't know

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what we're doing here you don't know what were doing here,    now Christians

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don't walk out on me just yet you know whose name im yelling as im clutching

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my chest the one my dad told me to and his told him to and I probably pray as

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much or more than you do believe? shit, every word i sing but believing and

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knowing, those are two different things and if your trying to change the way

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a strangers life will have to go I believe this is where i wanna stick to

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what i know which is nothing you know, nothing for sure so just chill til the

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next episode now back to the lecture at hand seems like my neighbor wants to

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kill what he cant understand I say we cant just kill what we don't understand

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but I turn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since then

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dawn of man for countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to see to it

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that clinging to life was our fate and you gotta admit that life’s pretty

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great,  but    can we deny that its killing us?   i'll be here all week

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happy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like i

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always do I aint hurtin you

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if life is anything its embarrassing a rusty nail through a careless shoe you

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can't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's never anything the

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poor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the shoe is only going

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where it has to too if you ain't the dumb kid out running around you kinda

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happy new year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I

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resolve to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two